{"id":54679,"date":"2018-04-12T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/where-to-with-the-field-gun-20180411-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:50:18","slug":"where-to-with-the-field-gun-20180411-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/where-to-with-the-field-gun-20180411-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to with the field gun?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uitenhage\u2019s historical Howitzer field gun, has survived many     \u201cbattles\u201d without having to fire a single shot in anger. Its latest \u201cbattle\u201d is the  uncertainty as to where it should be moved, as the property it stood on has been sold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> It stood at the Moth Garden of Remembrance adjacent to the Moth Hall in Rich Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This property has been auctioned off by McLaggan\u2019s last month and thus no longer belongs to the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (Moth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eben Beckley, a former Parks Manager at Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, said it is time for the Howitzer to return to Cannon Hill where once it was one of five cannons on the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis Howitzer field gun was given to the Uitenhage Council after World War I and placed at Cannon Hill on the northern side of the monument,\u201d said Beckley, whose late  father-in-law, Cyril Carter, took pictures of the Howitzer at Cannon Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Lions souvenir book of Uitenhage, published by   Lions Uitenhage (1973), the Howitzer was later moved to the Moth Garden of Remembrance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This move was during 1954, according to the late historian and researcher Jean van Onselen in her book Cannon Hill Uitenhage, 1804.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Soutter, the Provincial    Adjutant of the Eastern Cape Provincial Dugout said, \u201cat the moment we are not quite sure, but the Howitzer will be relocated to Moth property. 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